20. (a) What is faith? (b) What glowing word pictures of faith does Paul paint?
20 Faith explained and illustrated (10:32–12:3).
... “So, then,” continues Paul, “because we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also put off every weight and the sin that easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, as we look intently at the Chief Agent and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus.”—10:32, 39; 11:1, 8, 10, 27, 32, 33, 35, 38; 12:1, 2.